2.What is Hume's
distinction between knowledge and probability?What is Hume's distinction between knowledge and belief?

3.Why does Hume
think that there is arithmetical knowledge but not geometrical knowledge?

4.Hume's investigation
of the idea of cause.Why does he
conclude that being a cause is not a quality of an object?What are the impressions of sense from which
the idea of cause is derived?What part
of the idea of cause does not correspond to an impression of sense?What is its source?

5.Hume on temporal
priority.What do we mean by the
asymmetry between cause and effect?According
to Hume what is the explanation of the asymmetry between cause and effect.Give an example of a relation that is
generally understood as a causal one, even though we cannot distinguish in our
perception between the time of the occurrence of the cause and the time of the
occurrence of the effect.How would Hume
explain our belief in the asymmetry between cause and effect in your example?

6.It is possible for
something to begin to exist without a cause?What is Hume's view?Consider his
argument and how an opponent might respond to it?

7.According to Hume,
what distinguishes memory from the imagination?Is this true?Keep this question
in mind as we consider the varieties of "reasoning" that involve the
imagination.Ultimately, we will want to
distinguish the imagination's thoughts that are optional from those that are irresistible.

8.Hume thinks we can
distinguish the products of memory and imagination.How?Is he correct?How would Hume
explain the phenomenon of false memory?

9.What is Hume's
theory of belief?

10.Hume on causal
inference.What does Hume mean when he
says that there is no object which implies the existence of any other?According to Hume, what is involved in causal
inference?Consider his example of flames
causing heat.Think about your belief
that flames cause heat.Does his
explanation fit how you came to have that belief?

11.Hume on necessary
connection.What does Hume mean that
"the necessary connection depends on the inference, instead of the inference's depending on the necessary connection"?On Hume's account, is there really any idea
of necessary connection in objects?If
not, how was I able to refer to that idea in the previous question?[This is a deep question for Hume.]

12.Hume on
induction.What principle would be
required in order for the faculty of Reason to be able to infer an effect from
a cause?Why does Hume believe that
Reason could never establish that principle?

13.What is Hume's
explanation of causal reasoning?Why
does he call it "reasoning" if Reason does not do it?

14.According to
Hume, what is the idea of causean idea of?Is that
what you thought your idea of cause was an idea of?Hume's seems to be committed to holding that
we could misunderstand the content of one of our own ideas (i.e. the idea of
cause).But if we are not infallible
about the content of our own ideas, how is knowledge of them possible?

15.Inference to the
best explanation.Hume never considers
that Reason might infer from facts about phenomena to causal explanations of
those facts.Why not?Does this invalidate his entire argument
about causal reasoning?

16.How does Hume
distinguish between belief and incredulity?What is the force of an idea?Could we have an idea of force without an idea of cause?

17.Given Hume's account of the concept of cause, what does he mean
when he says:"'Tis
the present impression, which is to be consider'd as
the true and real cause of the idea, and of the belief which attends
it."(T 1.3.8.8)

18.What does Hume
mean when he says that all probable reasoning is a species of sensation
(T1.3.8.12)?

19.Hume on the
unconscious role of memory in inference.What does Hume mean by saying that past experience (via memory) may
produce a belief concerning causes and effects by a "secret
operation" (T 1.3.8.13)?Explain
the example he provides?On his own
account of causal inference, could we ever acquire a belief in a "secret
cause" of the kind he describes?Explain.

20.According to
current psychological theory, we are born with the ability to recognize faces
without any conscious inference?Why would
our ability to recognize faces without any conscious inference raise a problem
for Hume's psychology?How would Hume
explain face recognition?